Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration's ostrich-like desire to ignore public opinion on foreign affairs, particularly Quemoy and Matsu, is an anomaly in a democratic society. The thesis, as maintained by the President and vice-President, that free speech must be sacrificed for the appearance of a united front, could set a peculiarly dangerous precedent...
Complete withdrawal seemed to be in the distant future, however. Reports are that Chiang is taking advantage of the week-long respite to build up defenses on Quemoy and Matsu and stock up on ammunition, food and other supplies...
Professor Fairbank has requested that the following elaboration on his remarks at the Quemoy-Matsu "Protest" meeting of Tuesday, September 31, be printed as a letter to the Editors of the CRIMSON...
...Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who was promptly countered by New York's Republican Congressman Kenneth Keating for giving "aid and comfort" to the Communist enemy. Massachusetts' John Kennedy, stumping for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, blamed Dulles for having been caught in Quemoy and Matsu, implying that the U.S. should somehow have found a way to slip the islands out from under the Nationalists on the sly. Notably, leading Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson voiced no public criticism. But cartoonists, columnists, TV commentators and editorialists were badgering Dulles with a unanimity that...
...Saturday morning papers, Vice President Nixon read with anger wire-service and New York Times reports that the State Department's mail was running 80% against the Administration's stand on Quemoy and Matsu. Checking with top officers at State, Nixon became convinced that the stories were based on a calculated leak. Nixon quickly spoke...